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Bearing a cross.

Having jointed stems or culms.

Containing copper; as, cupriferous silver.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants ot which the oak and the chestnut are examples, -- trees bearing a smooth, solid nut inclosed in some kind of cup or bur; bearing, or furnished with, a cupule.

Producing cymes.

One who brings meat to the table; hence, in some countries, the official title of the grand master or steward of the king's or a nobleman's household.

ut off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold. Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak. God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name. Milton.

A yielding of judgment or preference from respect to the wishes or opinion of another; submission in opinion; regard; respect; complaisance. Deference to the authority of thoughtful and sagacious men. Whewell. Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments. Shenstone.…

Serving to carry; bearing. [R.] "Bodies deferent." Bacon.

Expressing deference; accustomed to defer.

With deference.

act of delaying; postponement. [R.] My grief, joined with the instant business, Begs a deferment. Suckling.

One who defers or puts off.

A subsiding from a state of ebullition; loss of heat; lukewarmness. A defervescency in holy actions. Jer. Taylor.

Bearing teeth; dentigerous.

Yielding diamonds.

or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from. One star differeth from another star in glory. 1 Cor. xv. 41. Minds differ, as rivers differ. Macaulay.

The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or unlike; distinction; dissimilarity; unlikeness; variation; as, a difference of quality in paper; a difference in degrees of heat, or of light; what is the difference between the innocent and the guilty Differencies of administration, but the same Lord. 1…

Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison.

part of the essence of a species; the characteristic attribute of a species; specific difference.